walluwar/-un-
‘lifting, raising’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2586
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
walluwar/-un-
‘lifting, raising’1.1.1Transmission
The word is found only once in a ritual against a child’s disease from the Tauriša tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. adj. dat./loc. sg. | wa-al-lu-na-ša-an | KUB 35.88 iii 12’ | (CTH 766, NS) |
Still interpreted as an acc. sg. in DLL:106, the form was correctly analyzed as a dat./loc. sg. and assigned to the genitival adjective of a verbal noun walluwar/-un- by Starke 1990a:550f..
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The spelling with singleton -š- in the genitival adjective is defective, but there is no need to restore the form by adding -〈aš⟩- (as done in Starke 1985b:227).
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1.1.4Meaning
According to Starke 1990a:550f., the context of the ritual relates to the situation after birth: (12’)an-ta-wa-aš-ta wa-al-lu-na-ša-an wa-a-ni up-pa-an-ta (13’)šar-ri-wa-tar DUMU-in wa-al-li-it-ta “They sent them in to the midwife. She lifted the child.” (KUB 35.88 iii 12’f.; slightly modifying Starke 1990a:550 by addition of ‘them’). He further adduces a parallel passage from KUB 35.102(+) iii 4-6: (4)za-am-pa-ku-wa dumu-ni-in wa-al-li-in-du (5)ša-an-na-i-in-du pa-wa-an-tar a-an-ni (6)⸢ti⸣-i-ta-ni du-ú-wa-an-du “They shall lift and š. the child, and place it at the mother’s breast.” The “woman of lifting (scil. the child)” is likely the midwife (cf. NHG Hebamme), as maintained by Starke 1982a:414 n. 31a (building on Meriggi 1980a:290; see also Starke 1990a:551) and accepted in CLL:253, HHw:194, HEG U-Z:235, Sasseville 2021a:138.
In contrast, Pringle 1985a:656 interprets the “woman of the lifting-up” as the nurse, referring to Akk. tārītu ‘the lifting one, nurse’ and citing contexts in which a nurse (Sum. (MUNUS)ùmmeda) lifts the child. The decision depends on whether the action described at KUB 35.88 iii 12’f. takes place immediately after birth or later when the child is cared for and raised.
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1.1.5Stem
Starke 1990a:550f. first recognized wallunašan as a form of the genitival adjective of a verbal noun in -uwar/-un-. The mention of wallunašan in the immediate context of walli-(ti) confirms their morphological relationship. It is obscured by the regular deletion of the verbal suffix -i- before the formant of the verbal noun as noticed for the stem class in general by Oettinger 1979a:563, Starke 1990a:550f., and Sasseville 2021a:132. The latter scholar considers the possibility that the loss is due to a phonological process, but if so, it would be a very general rule with /y/ > Ø before u, independent of the preceding consonant.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. walli-(ti).